Samuel Cross and Unknown

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Husband Samuel Cross ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: 1841 - ? Butler Co, PA 5
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   Other Spouse: Letitia [Unk] (      -      ) 2

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Wife Unknown

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Children

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1 M Thomas Cross ⁶

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           Died: 1850 - ? Butler Co, PA 6
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         Spouse: Margaret Porter (      -      ) 6
           Marr: Abt 1800

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2 M David Cross ⁶

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           Died: Bef 1883
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3 M John Cross

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4 M William Cross ^{3 4 6 7}

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           Born: Abt 1785
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           Died: 24 Nov 1861 - Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA 3 8
         Buried:  - Cross Cemetery, Clintonville, Venango Co, PA 9

         Spouse: Jane Weakly (Abt 1783-1862) 3 4

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Cross

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He emigrated to Worth township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, from Adams County in 1795. They settled along Wolf Creek, on a 400-acre tract. His son Thomas was a Revolutionary War soldier, and was in the battle of Lexington. A few years after locating there, Thomas married. The other brothers [David & William] also married and resided on the original settlement until their deaths, which transpired soon after the close of the war. [HBC 1883, 356]

He came from Adams County, Pennsylvania, moving his family and goods in two wagons and a carriage. These vehicles were among the first brought to the neighborhood. The family also brought a negro girl as a slave, but gave her her freedom when she became of age. In 1811-12, Samuel Cross erected the brick house later owned by his grandson, Mr. Bovard. The house was two stories, 30x45 feet, and substantially built. Besides being the first brick house in what became Slippery Rock Township, it was for years almost the only brick building in that part of the county. In it Cross kept tavern many years, and entertained many of the travelers who once made the old Franklin road their thoroughfare. His son, James, managed a distillery several years. [HBC 1883, 388]

He lived in eastern Pennsylvania and later at Centerville, Butler County, and had a family of twelve children by two marriages, eight sons and four daughters. All of the family remained in Butler County but William. [CAB, 603]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 356, 388.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 984.

3 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 995.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 517, 603.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 388.

6 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 356.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 323.

8 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 603.

9 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 2, Clinton Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1994), Pg 99.